Sunday, April 5, 2009

What about ending the heartbreak of psoriasis?

Has Our Divinely Anointed Maximum Leader found the great issue that will at last separate him from accusations that his administration is only a clone of his fallen predecessor's?

If so, is Our Divinely Anointed Maximum Leader a self-deluded megalomaniac, or only a closet idiot? Say what you will about his stated and reputed policy positions, he never came across as an idiot before. But now...

Obama to call for nuclear-free world

PRAGUE (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will call for the elimination of all nuclear weapons across the globe, in remarks on Sunday he hopes will lend credibility to his message in atomic disputes with Iran and North Korea.

Visiting Prague during an eight-day visit to Europe, Obama plans to deliver what his aides have billed as a major speech on weapons proliferation.
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Obama, a former U.S. senator who succeeded President George W. Bush in January, has long shown interest in the issue of halting weapons proliferation and wants to make it a signature foreign policy issue for his new administration.

"The president has been very focused on these issues of proliferation for many years," White House Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough told reporters.

"Tomorrow, I think you'll hear the president, in a very comprehensive way, outline many of the things that he's been talking about and working on for some time," McDonough said.
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George Perkovich, a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace think tank in Washington, said that unlike issues such as the economic downturn and the Iraq war, the proliferation agenda is not an issue he inherited from the Bush administration but one he is actively promoting.

"This is one of the few things that is not part of his inheritance," Perkovich said.
The main talking point Obama's sock puppets stress in this Reuters story isn't the joys and blessings of world peace, but how This Isn't Something Bush Was Doing. They state firmly that this has always been a major Obama concern, far more important to him than the U.S. economy and the name of the new White House Puppy. Strange that I don't recall him ever once mentioning it during the entire course of the long, long, endless, exhausting and also very long campaign. 'Course, I wasn't paying that much attention to what he said so he may have snuck it in here and there.

But like Bush's late-term and almost psychotically futile claims of imminent Israeli/Palestinian peace under his leadership, it seems strange that Our Divinely Anointed Maximum Leader would actually choose or be persuaded to expend substantial political capital on something that is so transparently never going to happen. Why not promise to do something believable, like end all crime? To cure all disease and AR rifle system jamming problems forever? To make it rain Skittles and unicorns? Is he this desperate already? Is his administration really this empty?

4 comments:

C.M. said...

Psoriasis? Psoriasis, you want him to cure you of the heartbreak associated with psoriasis? I thought folks moved to desert climes for exactly that reason alone.....well that and TB of course.

Anonymous said...

Yes, his administration really is this empty and stupid.

Joel said...

Hey. I don't have psoriasis. If I wanted anything magical from him, I'd ask him to come up with a way to re-grow missing limbs, or to scrub the stains off my fingers from rolling my own cigarettes.

But so far a billion prayers to various deities haven't produced whirled peas. Call me skeptical but I've a feeling The Big O isn't up to it, either.

CM said...

Just imagine how ticked folks are gonna be if they allow themselves to figure out just how empty the big O is. What are they gonna do then? Nothing much left to dream of, after all he was supposed to be the ONE.